Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-05
yDER A FOREIGN YOKE.
~ I8BdI0rdism in the Southwest
settlers on the Stoisn Max
we'll Grant
,.J. Their Protest Tkis weeh-How a
small state WAS Etched by
Laud GraDbers.

.-5y. y. H., July 3l.-For twenty
+. o. more American citizens have
establishing themselves within this
nav known as the Maxwell Land
~. This grant IS sixty miles one
--s73 at.v miles smother, and is slmost
.7ogg1 for c state. 1t lies in North
New Mexico and Southern Colorado.
:. +-795,e which has occurred over this
r. with wl.c2 the readers of the Her
are iami.tsr, IS due entirely to diff
-rc- Il opinion as to
= size of the original grant.
- gpnesrs 10 be no doubt
--7-ei1d,ced minds that the original
~, WIS much smaller than that which
gsrce been claimed by the land Sharks
i g-abbers who have made fortunes
q their mart in the deal. The
1zile h2s been long time in progress.
Sow success.
D1.ine the last twenty years the set
s,s lgye been under TWO foreign masters.
Is. .ae7 fell under the rule of an Eng
: COMPANY. Now they are at the
-a.7 Of Dutch company. When the
.-..sl corporation, which at one time
..-o-ad the Maxwell grant, was in pos
@,.la It's agent sought 10 enforce its
4-s upon the settlers and war
rs re result. For q few years there
~ more murders on the Maxwell
- than there were in all the rest of
=: J-i,ed States together, aud the per-
=.s.cr Of no. one in twenty was ever
-1lg0de5 The Dutch company now
--9SsesSi9n i, more ClrcumspeCt, and It
H. 5liesyCT to make terms with the set
HwliCh VII be satisfactory all around
a.ss won all IS legal battles; it has g
III hing on lis Jitle, and it feels that it
4 afford to be magnanimOus
il asks is that several thousand:
4a-=ricsn citiz ms long residents here
acknowledge It's supremacy
z. gsy rent hereafter with old worlC
a.-4..ty. I. IS for the purpose Of dis
-&I- this point and agreeine upon
.-,y I)r the future that the settlers vii
Is 8eeh hold meeting here. Most 0
In ere said 10 DC in favor Of giving in
--s1 some are anxious for a fight. a
Supreme Court of the United State
Is -lsllg decided thai the grant ss tiXe(
ilaudU.eut survey Is correct snd tina
i aae rests in the Dutch company, an,
ss2nce which the settlers can max
Dc futile. One Of the settlers i
--'.d Taylor, g relative 0
;2.lent Iachsry Taylor, and an
III, IS john Young, son Q
'JoyeTLOr Young OF Missouri
!..y gil the settlera have herds, thoug
me are miners and farmers. They CAM
x org before the lands which they
IS u were claimed by the MsXwel
-2llE, and inc triumph OF the grab j
: court Of lsst resort deprives them c
x holdings or forces them to buy fror
>i-sn property which they already owr
.21g bQ, the hopelessness of the Gas
.'glt3 the biggest kind of a row.
sew 1Ot-le8ds should manage to col
=, lie meetings here it is certain tina
AoAander5 and their agents woul
-y-Fe-y times unless they could gt
>Ill.ej States army at their backs.
y ms IS probably the 1rst case il tn
,s1.y Ct the republic in which America
S~-sas Aaye met 10 consider the questio
a'en .endlordism, it is an event
"a historical interest. The trickel
N-.c1 SO large g section of COUNT
: Drought under such subsection
:. worthy Of remembrance. Fifty yea
), When this whole section belonged
r,,-Co, It was the custom of the 60
+i-lsnt of that country to make gran
nd TO private individuals. The
us were roughly described, al
- great difficulty defined. TIL
~ reached the msgnitu'
~ Claimed for the MaXw'
NY however. Ia 1871 the Me1ics
as'anent made this grant to tv
.'-e2men named Beaubien and Mirand
~ established q trading post on t
~ and Tor some time did big bus
- with the Indians. Miranda final
:. out, and Besu5ien was in sole pc
son when John C. Fremont car
~ Syn on his first exploring expeditio
"a aim WAS young man named Luci
Asxwel, who abandoned Fremo
and remained at Beaubien's rsno
4''e he courted, won and married t
STenchmsn's daughter. Soon aft
~ BeaCbien died, and Maxwell, br
WI the other heirs for small sun
rrsae the sole owner of the graz
Ca thereafter took his name. He "
~.eWd trader, and he and his W
~ ~ IN feudsl m.gnitlcence. They b
rs OF relatives. They entertain
~ ~ tsVishly. They were rich. Ever